What We believe

We believe in God. We know it sounds cliché, but we really do! We believe God exists and that the Bible is God’s inspired revelation to mankind.

As with any document, the Bible must be interpreted. Many interpretations exist. Our goal for interpretation is to try to understand the original author’s intent, and apply the truths to our present lives.

While attending Grace, you’ll notice a trend. We study the Bible! We have classes, open discussions, and preaching. All from the Bible.

What we have found through God’s letter to us is that we are imperfect people. We need a Savior. And, God has provided a Savior in Jesus!

Below are statements that try to clarify our beliefs concerning certain topics. Once again, based on the Bible.

5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.

6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.

7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.

8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches.

9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts.

10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners.

11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe.

12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints.

13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age.

14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer.

15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish.

16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient.

17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it.

18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance.

19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.

20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches.

21. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures.

22. We believe the Bible definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman.